- Medicaid fraud in Minnesota.
- What Dr. Spock got wrong.
- FDA: Marty Makary talks about accelerated cures while Vinay Prasad quietly scuttles them. (WSJ)
- Roland Fryer: Best approach to illegal drugs: legalize and tax. (WSJ)
- Women now control more than one-third of global wealth, a figure expected to rise, according to this 2025 Oppenheimer.com article.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
What is the Purpose of Health Insurance?
This year the cost of Obamacare for someone my age living in my North Texas county is roughly $10,000 for a $10,000 deductible. That means I would pay premiums of just over $800 a month in return for coverage that would cover nothing unless my health needs exceed $800 a month for the entire year. Assuming I spent more than $10,000 during the coverage period, the ACA plan would cover only $0.60 cents of every dollar I spend above my deductible.
Saturday Links – 28 February 2026
- Dr. Oz’s new proposal would allow one kind of health plan to raise the annual deductible to more than $15,000 for an individual and $31,000 for a family. ?????
- In 1979, households in the lowest income quintile earned about 53 percent of their total income in the marketplace. Since then, that figure has plummeted to an all-time low of just 33 percent,
- CBO: Medicare Part A Trust fund will be exhausted by 2040.
- What the IRA bill has done to projected prescription drugs spending.
Friday Links – 27 February 2026
- How Mark Cuban would run a hospital.
- More than 40 million people use ChatGPT for health care questions every day.
- “The cost of developing a new medicine has roughly doubled every nine years, while the number of drugs produced per research dollar has steadily declined.”
- Median family income rose by almost $2,400 after inflation in 2025.